Global Copyright
by Lionel Bently, June M. Besek, Dame Lynne J. Brindley, Trevor Cook, William Cornish, Ronan Deazley, Joris Deene, Christophe Geiger, Ysolde Gendreau, Jane C. Ginsburg, Willem Grosheide, Takeshi Hishinuma, Lord Hoffmann, Tarja Koskinen-Olsson, Delia Lipszyc, Andre Lucas, Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, Victor Nabhan, Harjinder Obhi, Marybeth Peters, Gunnar Petri, Marco Ricolfi, Mark Rose, Pierre Sirinelli, Christian Sprang, J. A. L. Sterling, Michael F. Suarez, S. J., Uma Suthersanen, Tomasz Targosz, Paul Torremans, Stef van Gompel, Martin Vogel, Andreas Wiebe, Raquel Xalabarder
This innovative book celebrates the tri-centenary of modern copyright, which began with the enactment of the Statute of Anne by the British Parliament in 1709, and was soon followed by other copyright legislation abroad. The Statute of Anne is traditionally claimed to be the world's first copyright statute, and is thus viewed as the origin of a system of national laws that today exists in virtually all countries of the world. However, this book illustrates that while there is some truth in this claim, it is also important to treat it with caution.